But never a scorpion on a plane. Thankfully I wasn’t on board, but a surprise passenger gave those on a flight from Houston to Calgary quite the shock on Sunday.

Emergency crews boarded United Airlines(Yep….tough week) Flight 1418 at YYC International at about 3:30pm on Sunday afternoon after reports that someone had been “bitten by a scorpion”. Paramedics assessed a man in his 60’s who declined treatment and were told “that someone on board the flight stepped on the scorpion and flushed it down the toilet.”

More on the story can be read here. What do you think?! Fake story? Are they making this up?

Kim Smith, a Global News reporter out of Calgary has reached out to man who experienced the sting…